lucky Posted May 21, 2009 Share Posted May 21, 2009 Hi,I am developing a Online Store which will sell products from different vendors form different locations.My question is: Which is the best way to manage the inventory from multiple vendors?i.e. each vendor would like to add or modify his product details in my store. Which is the best way to do that?Does prestashop provide a web interface or login to multiple vendors for Inventory/stock management?Are there any free solutions/scripts available on internet? I checked a few of them on internet, but I still havent found something that matches my requirements.In other words, If its not supported by Prestashop, then I am looking for a free/opensource script through which different suppliers can view/Add/Update/Delete products in the inventory. Later I can manually update Prestashop Catalog.Any suggestions??The other option left for me is to develop a PHP script containing pages to View/Add/Update/Delete products.-lucky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert G. Posted May 21, 2009 Share Posted May 21, 2009 Have you looked at "Profiles" under "Employees" in the admin interface? Using that you could probably set up a new profile with the right permissions for inventory/order handling only. I haven't used it myself, but it sounds perfect for this to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lucky Posted May 21, 2009 Author Share Posted May 21, 2009 Hey Robert,Thanks a lot...But I see one issue with this. If I give Add/Modify/Delete rights to suppliers, then they might mess around with each other's inventory/orders.Is there any way we can restrict the employee rights to View/Modify/Delete only a particular set of Items in Inventory (Same with orders). i.e A supplier will be able to view/modify/delete only those items which were added by him.Also, is there a way to track the changes done by the employees? Something like change management? So that, in case of some mess, Admin can do Damage control.-lucky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert G. Posted May 21, 2009 Share Posted May 21, 2009 Hey Robert,Thanks a lot...But I see one issue with this. If I give Add/Modify/Delete rights to suppliers, then they might mess around with each other's inventory/orders.Is there any way we can restrict the employee rights to View/Modify/Delete only a particular set of Items in Inventory (Same with orders). i.e A supplier will be able to view/modify/delete only those items which were added by him.Also, is there a way to track the changes done by the employees? Something like change management? So that, in case of some mess, Admin can do Damage control.-lucky Hmm, it doesn't exist yet as far as I know, but you could probably in some way reference the supplier reference (which is a product-option) in there some way. I'll have a play around in my test shop..I wouldn't know anything re. logging.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lucky Posted May 22, 2009 Author Share Posted May 22, 2009 Hmm, it doesn't exist yet as far as I know, but you could probably in some way reference the supplier reference (which is a product-option) in there some way. I'll have a play around in my test shop..I wouldn't know anything re. logging.. Hi Robert,Thats a good idea... Did you try it? Any success?-lucky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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